Coding for Error Control in a Computer-Manufacturer's Environment: A Foreword

“… before the computer truly enlarges the citizen's world … I think that first of all we have to change the way we do software… .We must make it possible for everyone to communicate with a computer…. We must also increase [the computer's] reliability and think of computers not as machines in the basement but as devices that provide a service to a community and cannot fail. Let me assure you that this is an important change in the framework of mind of today's designers and manufacturers. We must achieve reliabilities that are unknown to computers today, but are feasible…”